Hi Everyone, my name is Nick. Welcome to teaching series "how do you say this in American English"
Nick:大家好,我是Nick.
Brad:大家伙,我是Brad.
Nick:那今天呢請(qǐng)到了我們的老朋友Brad來(lái)講解今天的節(jié)目。那今天呢我們給大家講一個(gè)"作"要怎么表達(dá)。我們英文有個(gè)比較對(duì)應(yīng)的表達(dá),叫做Act up. 那這個(gè)時(shí)候呢"作"其實(shí)是說(shuō)你在做一些很不恰當(dāng)?shù)氖虑樵谝粋€(gè)不恰當(dāng)?shù)臅r(shí)間，為了去吸引注意力。比如說(shuō)熊孩子，你在做作業(yè)或者玩電腦，熊孩子在遍地打滾要你帶他出去玩。你說(shuō)我沒(méi)有時(shí)間我正在做作業(yè)但他不聽(tīng)，他一直在遍地打滾，在鬧。這個(gè)就是很明顯"作"。那這個(gè)時(shí)候你就可以說(shuō) Stop acting up, I really hate this. 我真的很不喜歡這樣,你不要"作",那讓我們?cè)賮?lái)聽(tīng)下Brad對(duì)于這個(gè)"作"是怎么講解的. Hi Brad, I've heard that"act up" can be used for describing either a person or a thing, right?
Brad: Of course
Nick: How do you use that for a person.
Brad: In this example for using it, for a person. In example, we could use is… Let's say you have a younger sibling and they are being disobedient as they often are. You are watching TV and they wanna watch TV, too. So they are throwing trash everywhere. Maybe they are dumping water on you
Nick: This is so unbelievable.
Brad: Not really unbelievable just very crazy and annoying, then they are"acting up"
Nick:那Brad剛剛和我解釋的就差不多,說(shuō)如果你有一個(gè)Younger brother,你有一個(gè)弟弟或者妹妹的時(shí)候，你想看電視他也想看電視但是你不讓他看，他就到處扔?xùn)|西，這種非常惡劣的行為就是"作"。聽(tīng)起來(lái)也非常像我們常說(shuō)的熊孩子，不讓人喜歡。這個(gè)時(shí)候就要教育一下。另外一種呢就是我們所說(shuō)的某個(gè)物品它壞了我們也可以說(shuō)"Act up"。例如說(shuō)我做作業(yè)電腦壞了就可以說(shuō)My laptop is acting up. 當(dāng)然也可以說(shuō)It doesn't work都是可以的. Brad, a couple days ago, I did homework called CSE program
Brad: Oh yeah Computer Science Engineering, I'm familiar.
Nick: Yeah that's a class I have to take. When I was doing my homework, the excel didn't work. At that time, I was like"OMG" coz it was due that night. I was so afraid.
Brad: that's an example of a thing that can acted up. You have a computer that works that acts well online. You can search things on Google. You can do this say you have a software program that might be out of date. That's old and if you are unable to do certain formulas on it and it's glitching. You can say that the computer's then acting up.
Nick: Thank you
Brad:不客氣
Nick:不客氣...Yeah, that was very good.那Brad剛剛就是說(shuō)他在做Excel的時(shí)候可能因?yàn)闆](méi)有更新，因?yàn)槲覀冎繣xcel要更新的嘛。我在做我的作業(yè)的時(shí)候我發(fā)現(xiàn)沒(méi)有更新,然后它就不讓你編輯。那些公式Formula也就輸入不了這就會(huì)很煩，這個(gè)就Acting up. 這就是和某個(gè)東西壞了是一樣的，或者是用著不好，不一定是壞了. Not necessarily. 也可以是用著非常不舒服。以上呢就是今天關(guān)于Acting up的講解, 用在"作"和東西壞了或是東西不好用的一個(gè)表達(dá)上. So this is pretty much for this class, I'll see you guys next time.
Brad: Thank you, Goodbye.